The goal of the Human Genome Project was
a. to identify haplotype tags.
b. to expose untaggable SNPs and recombination hot spots.
c. to produce a catalog of human genome variation.
d. to map all the human genes.
D
The Human Genome Project was a huge international collaborative project that began in 1990 with the goal of making a map of all the human genes (the genome). The final genome sequence was published in 2003 . The HapMap project was to identify haplotype tags. The Genome-Wide Association Studies was used to expose untaggable SNPs and recombination hot spots. The 1000 Genomes project was used to map all the human genes.
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